Brennan Manning Quotes
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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I was able to say to everyone, 'Would you be willing to take a role that you've cherished and worked on for a long time and change it to female?' And there was not any hesitation, which was a real win. That hopefully shows a shift in the climate for women in film, although we still have some climbing to do.
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I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
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Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
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And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.
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As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
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Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
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In this world I probably know best. The person I like doesn't look at me but looks at someone else, smiles for someone else. I really know how you're feeling. And I can't truthfully be jealous either. I think if two people naturally like each other, it's almost like a miracle. Someday, will that miracle come true for me too?
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
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Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
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Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
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The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
